Plants are sessile and as such their reactions to environmental challenges differ from those
of mobile organisms. Many adaptions involve growth responses and hence, growth …

Pollination is a key event for fruit set. Worldwide, there has been an increasing interest in
apple pollination. Apple pollen grains are elliptical and tricolpate. Pollen germination is …

Flowering is a critical agricultural trait that substantially affects tomato fruit yield. Although
drought stress influences flowering time, the molecular mechanism underlying drought …

In Arabidopsis thaliana, the genes FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT) and TERMINAL FLOWER1
(TFL1) have antagonistic roles in regulating the onset of flowering: FT activates and TFL1 …

Plant architecture shows a large degree of developmental plasticity. Some of the key
determinants are the timing of the floral transition induced by a systemic flowering signal …

The Flowering Locus T1 (FT1) gene from Populus trichocarpa under the control of the 35S
promoter was transformed into European plum (Prunus domestica L). Transgenic plants …

In the 1930s, the flowering hormone, florigen, was proposed to be synthesized in leaves
under inductive day length and transported to the shoot apex, where it induces flowering …

Plants measure day or night lengths to coordinate specific developmental changes with a
favorable season. In rice (Oryza sativa), the reproductive phase is initiated by exposure to …

Summary The plant pathogen Candidatus Phytoplasma mali (P. mali) is the causative agent
of apple proliferation, a disease of increasing importance in apple‐growing areas within …

Highlights•Natural variation in FT proteins generates promoters or repressors of
flowering.•Long noncoding RNAs expressed at FLC correlate with its inactivation during …